High Priest living at the time of United Monarchy
Eli
The priest at Shiloh when Hannah came to pray for a son; at first he thought she was drunk, but then blessed her (1 Samuel 1:9–17). He raised Samuel in the sanctuary (1 Samuel 2:11; 3). His own sons Hophni and Phinehas were greedy and immoral priests, and Eli rebuked them only mildly, so that a man of God told him his house would lose the priesthood (1 Samuel 2:12–36). When the ark was captured by the Philistines and he heard that his sons were dead, he fell backward from his seat and broke his neck. He was 98 and had judged Israel forty years (1 Samuel 4:10–18).
High priest at Shiloh who judged Israel 40 years. Ussher dates his birth to 1214 BC from his age at death, 98, in 1116 BC.
Family
- Ancestor
- Ithamar (an ancestor; generations between are not named)
- Children
- Hophni, Phinehas
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